The British foreign Secretary, Anthony
Eden and General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General
Staff leave London for a tour of the Balkan capitals in order
to try and establish an anti-axis pact. However, Yugoslavia
refuses to see them and Turkey refuses their proposals. Only
Greece shows any interest.

20/02/1941

The Australian Prime Minister, R.G.
Menzies arrives in Britain for talks with Churchill.

12/03/1941

Churchill thanks America
for ‘a new Magna Carta’.

07/04/1941

British war budget raises income tax.

16/04/1941

The first American "Lend-Lease" food
aid shipments arrive in Britain.

10/05/1941

Rudolf Hess, Hitler's
deputy and former World War I fighter pilot, flies from Augsburg
to Scotland to persuade anti-Churchill politicians that England
should stop the war with Germany, adopt a neutral attitude
and allow Germany to eliminate the Bolshevik menace and gain
Lebensraum in the East. He was taken to a secret location,
interrogated and then held incommunicado at various places
until the end of the war, later to be charged and condemned
as a major war criminal at Nuremberg.

15/05/1941

Ernie Bevin says that he would not
negotiate with ‘murderer’ Hess. It’s reported
that the Dame of Sark has been deported to a German concentration
camp as a reprisal for civil disobedience. Announced that British
losses in France and Norway were 13,250 killed and approximately
41,000 taken prisoner out of 437,000 men engaged.

20/05/1941

Prime Minister says he is still not
prepared to make a statement on Hess.

BBC announces the ‘V Army’,
the resistance movement in Occupied Europe. George Armstrong
executed at Wandsworth prison for spying.

27/08/1941

British government takes
over railways for the duration of the war, paying £43m
per annum in compensation to private operators.

19/09/1941

Lord Woolton calls the
black market in Britain ‘a thorn in our side’.

30/09/1941

The guard at a detention centre in
Peel on the Isle of Man is strengthened after disturbances,
which results with 20 British fascists being moved to Liverpool.

01/10/1941

The House of Commons votes for the
third £1,000m war credit of year.

03/10/1941

British road deaths in
the second year of war up 65% on the pre-war figure.

20/11/1941

The exiled Norwegian Government
in London officially backs ‘Milorg’, the largest
resistance organisation in Norway.

24/11/1941

Two Luftwaffe officers, make the war's
most audacious attempt to escape from a British POW camp. Lt.
Heinz Schnabel and Oblt. Harry Wappler were prisoners in Camp
No.15 near Penrith, Northumbria. Forging papers that identified
them as Dutch officers serving in the RAF, they made their
way to the RAF airfield at Kingstown near Carlisle and started
the engine of a Miles Magister. Taking off, they soon realized
they did not have the fuel to make it to Nazi-occupied Holland
reluctantly they turned back, landing in a field about five
miles north of Great Yarmouth. Recaptured, they were sent back
to Camp No.15 again and sentenced to 28 days solitary confinement.

02/12/1941

Churchill introduces a new National
Service Bill, including compulsory service for women.

05/12/1941

Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary
and Rumania.

08/12/1941

Britain and dominions
declare war on Japan.

10/12/1941

Karel Richter, a German
spy who parachuted into Hertfordshire is executed at Wandsworth
Prison.